Singapore A Modern Asian City State
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Singapore A Modern Asian City State
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Author : Brigitte Sie Kok Hwa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Singapore A Modern Asian City State written by Brigitte Sie Kok Hwa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Economic development categories.
Zsfassung in niederländ. Sprache
The Asian Modern
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Author : C. J. Wan-ling Wee
language : en
Publisher: NUS Press
Release Date : 2007
The Asian Modern written by C. J. Wan-ling Wee and has been published by NUS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Lion City
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Author : Jeevan Vasagar
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-03-01
Lion City written by Jeevan Vasagar and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-01 with History categories.
A compelling, illuminating and evocative history of Singapore—the world's most successful city-state. In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a par with Jordan. Now it has outstripped Japan. After the Second World War and a sudden rupture with newly formed Malaysia, Singapore found itself independent - and facing a crisis. It took the bloody-minded determination and vision of Lee Kuan Yew, its founding premier, to take a small island of diverse ethnic groups with a fragile economy and hostile neighbours and meld it into Asia's first globalised city. Lion City examines the different faces of Singaporean life - from education and health to art, politics and demographic challenges - and reveals how in just half a century, Lee forged a country with a buoyant economy and distinctive identity. It explores the darker side of how this was achieved too; through authoritarian control that led to it being dubbed 'Disneyland with the death penalty'. Jeevan Vasagar, former Singapore correspondent for the Financial Times, masterfully takes us through the intricate history, present and future of this unique diamond-shaped island one degree north of the equator, where new and old have remained connected. Lion City is a personal, insightful and definitive guide to the city, and how its extraordinary rise is shaping East Asia and the rest of the world.
Singapore
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Author : Philippe Régnier
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1991-01-01
Singapore written by Philippe Régnier and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-01 with Political Science categories.
Singapore
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Author : Martin Perry
language : en
Publisher: Academy Press
Release Date : 1997-06-04
Singapore written by Martin Perry and has been published by Academy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06-04 with Architecture categories.
Singapore has achieved global prominence as the link between the international economy and one of the world's fastest growing regions. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the city. It reviews the city's social, physical and political characteristics and explores such current dilemmas as the means of accommodating the aspirations of an increasingly affluent population while overcoming the physical constraints of a small island state.
Consumption Cities And States
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Author : Ann Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2015-03-01
Consumption Cities And States written by Ann Brooks and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-01 with Social Science categories.
‘Consumption, Cities and States’ examines the fascinating intersection of consumption, citizenship and the state in a cross-section of global cities in Asia and the West. It focuses on a number of theoretical and empirical analyses: developing and amplifying the intersection of consumption, citizenship and the state in late modernity in relation to a range of cities; examining the concept of the global city as an ‘aspirational’ category for cities in Asia and the West; and considering case studies which highlight the intersection of consumption and the state. As Ann Brooks and Lionel Wee demonstrate, the interface between citizen status and consumer activity proves a crucial point of analysis in the light of the neoliberal assertion that individuals and institutions perform at their best within a free market economy.
Singapore In The New Millennium
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Author : Derek da Cunha
language : en
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Release Date : 2002
Singapore In The New Millennium written by Derek da Cunha and has been published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Business & Economics categories.
"Grew out of a one-day conference ... organized by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in August 1999. Eight papers were presented at that conference, of which seven were selected, revised in 2001 and now appear as chapters in this book [together with] three more ... and also reflecting on the significance of the 2001 general election."--Pref.
The Political Economy Of A City State
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Author : Linda Low
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1998
The Political Economy Of A City State written by Linda Low and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Business & Economics categories.
It uses a political economy approach to analyse how Singapore made its growth and development.
Singapore From Temasek To The 21st Century
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Author : Karl Hack
language : en
Publisher: National University of Singapore Press
Release Date : 2010
Singapore From Temasek To The 21st Century written by Karl Hack and has been published by National University of Singapore Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
"Once a centre for international trade and finance, Singapore has become a "global city." Singapore from Temasek to the 21st Century: Reinventing the Global City examines its evolution from trading port to city-state, showing how Singapore has repeatedly reinvented itself by creating or re-asserting qualities that helped attract capital, talent and trade. In the 14th century, the island's prosperity rested on regulating the regional carrying trade passing through the Straits of Melaka. In 1819, after a long period of decline, the British East India Company revived the island's fortune by making Singapore a "free" port, and trade sustained the city until the Japanese occupation and the postwar collapse of colonial rule. After independence, Singapore resumed its role as a major commercial and financial center, but added facilities to make the island a regional centre for manufacturing. More recently, it has transformed its population into an educated and highly-skilled workforce, and has made the island an education hub that is a magnet for research and development in fields such as biotechnology. Singapore's dramatic evolutionary struggle defies description as a sequentially unfolding narrative, or merely as the story of a nation. In this volume, an international group of scholars examines the history of Singapore as a series of discontinuous and varied attempts by a shifting array of local and foreign actors to optimise advantages arising from the island's strategic location and overcome its lack of natural resources."--publisher website.
Singapore
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Author : Michael D. Barr
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-12-13
Singapore written by Michael D. Barr and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-13 with History categories.
Singapore gained independence in 1965, a city-state in a world of nation-states. Yet its long and complex history reaches much farther back. Blending modernity and tradition, ideologies and ethnicities, a peculiar set of factors make Singapore what it is today. In this thematic study of the island nation, Michael D. Barr proposes a new approach to understand this development. From the pre-colonial period through to the modern day, he traces the idea, the politics and the geography of Singapore over five centuries of rich history. In doing so he rejects the official narrative of the so-called 'Singapore Story'. Drawing on in-depth archival work and oral histories, Singapore: A Modern History is a work both for students of the country's history and politics, but also for any reader seeking to engage with this enigmatic and vastly successful nation.